Astrophysics

US grid vulnerable to power outages due to its reliance on gas

US grid vulnerable to power outages due to its reliance...

SIN Jan 12, 2024 0 3

Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls an...

Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid clouds

Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid ...

SIN Jan 12, 2024 0 23

Venus is wrapped in clouds that are rich in concentrated sulphuric acid, and we ...

Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the largest yet found

Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the largest...

SIN Jan 12, 2024 0 7

A mysterious civilisation built a network of cities and roads in the Amazon betw...

Numbats are overheating because Australia is getting too hot for them

Numbats are overheating because Australia is getting to...

SIN Jan 12, 2024 0 3

On a hot day, numbats can only look for food for 10 minutes before they are forc...

Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile

Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old r...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 4

Ancient fragments of fossilised skin may help us understand how skin evolved as ...

Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by showing users' locations

Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by showing u...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 29

Weibo, a social media platform, tried to reduce incivility by displaying estimat...

Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 4

A dinosaur known only from a partial skull has been dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraens...

How galactic mysteries near and far are poised to shake up cosmology

How galactic mysteries near and far are poised to shake...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 24

Last year saw a host of exciting galaxy-related discoveries, led by a study abou...

Record growth of renewable energy in 2023 isn't fast enough, says IEA

Record growth of renewable energy in 2023 isn't fast en...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 3

The International Energy Agency finds the world is on track to more than double ...

Why we should all be concerned about the shortage of science teachers

Why we should all be concerned about the shortage of sc...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 2

From Australia to the UK, the global shortage of science teachers will have a da...

California frog reintroduction is rare victory against fungal pandemic

California frog reintroduction is rare victory against ...

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 3

The success of a 15-year project to help frogs in California’s Sierra Nevada sug...

Some corals change sex each year so they can find mates

Some corals change sex each year so they can find mates

SIN Jan 11, 2024 0 3

Nearly three-quarters of hammer coral colonies annually alternate between male a...

Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago

Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000...

SIN Jan 10, 2024 0 26

The mysterious giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki died out up to 295,000 years ago...

Multiple sclerosis genes may have arisen to ward off animal infections

Multiple sclerosis genes may have arisen to ward off an...

SIN Jan 10, 2024 0 4

An invasion of nomadic herders from the Eurasian steppe profoundly changed the g...

How Bolivia’s gold rush is poisoning Indigenous communities

How Bolivia’s gold rush is poisoning Indigenous communi...

SIN Jan 10, 2024 0 4

People who live along rivers in the Amazon basin have severe neurological sympto...

NASA to unveil X-59 supersonic plane that makes a 'sonic thump'

NASA to unveil X-59 supersonic plane that makes a 'soni...

SIN Jan 10, 2024 0 3

The experimental X-59 aircraft is designed to break the sound barrier without ma...

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